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Clubs boycott Saucony Run Shoreditch 10km over event sponsor’s links to Israel

By Claudia Lee | Monday 22 September 2025 at 18:51
Waking Dreams ahead of their 10km in Victoria Park, Sunday 21 September

‘We cannot allow the sport we love to be used to gloss over oppression’

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Vet suspended over cat death employed as head surgeon in Hackney

By Claudia Lee | Friday 19 September 2025 at 15:59
Goddard Veterinary Group Practice in Well Street

A series of charges of serious professional misconduct were proved against him

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Climate campaigners urge council to ‘lead by example’ on plant-based catering

By Claudia Lee | Friday 19 September 2025 at 12:42

Plant-Based Hackney fears Town Hall is ‘nowhere near as ambitious as it claims to be’

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Portraits of Slovak and Czech Britain, Nunnery Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Amazing cultural richness’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 19 September 2025 at 11:46

Scientists, artists and more pose for Peaky Blinders photographer Robert Viglasky

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Sadiq Khan breaks ranks with Labour government to call Gaza tragedy ‘genocide’ for first time

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 19 September 2025 at 11:34
Sadiq Khan at People's Question Time, 17 September 2025

Mayor of London has previously resisted calls to label Israel’s military campaign a genocide but now says it’s “inescapable” to conclude that

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‘The spirit of a place’ – How Dalston painters and potters fought back to save studio block from closure

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 19 September 2025 at 10:46
Painter Ansel Krut in his studio

Hackney Council moved to sell off Ashwin Street’s creative workspaces earlier this year, but artists have now bought the site after refusing to give up

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Council says ‘no hard plans’ to close nurseries this year after legal challenge

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 18:22
Children's centres protest

Town Hall shelved plans to close two children’s centres, but questions linger over lessons learned from the debacle

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Hackney Council more than doubles its debt in one year – but what is the Town Hall spending on?

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 18:09
Sunday's best: Licensing committee considers Hoppers' bid for longer opening hours

Hackney Council’s borrowing is below average for London, but its debt burden is set to rise five-fold by 2028

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Woman injured and man dead in Clissold Park shooting – as police appeal for witnesses

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 15:28

Officers confirm that the pair were ‘known to each other’ and they believe it was an ‘isolated incident’

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Former councillor defends Morning Lane role following ‘insider’ claims

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 17:45

Vincent Stops responds to a report by campaigners that called his involvement an ‘egregious lack of transparency’

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Homerton dietician warns of ‘postcode lottery’ over access to weight loss drugs

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 15 September 2025 at 11:31

The London Assembly Health Committee heard that high demand for the drugs in London has forced consumers into buying counterfeit medicines

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Man who planned Hackney shooting that left girl with bullet in her brain sentenced to life

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 September 2025 at 18:01

Javon Riley given minimum term of 34 years for ‘meticulously organising’ attack at Evin restaurant last year

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Iconic Hackney estate made famous by rent campaign set for sweeping regeneration

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 12 September 2025 at 11:09

New Era residents took on their former landlord and won – now their homes are due for large-scale refurbishment

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‘Ridiculous’: Council blocks juice bar from putting tables outside due to ‘encroachment’ on nearby park

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 11 September 2025 at 13:28

Owner of Faith in Nature’s Juices says he doesn’t understand why tables and chairs stretching five metres are not in line with council policy

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Morning Lane campaigners accuse council of consultation ‘con job’ in scathing report

By Max Eckersley | Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 09:34

Morning Lane People’s Space urges Town Hall to ‘do better’, with ‘future of the town centre at stake’

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Kokin, Stratford, food review: ‘So romantic, so artfully curated’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 5 September 2025 at 17:30

Learn from me though, put your best heels on, clunk on your baubles and move money over from your savings (you’ll need a fair wad)

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Titbits – Lording it up

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 September 2025 at 17:27
Titbits bird

Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

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Blinds, Hackney Road, food review: ‘Well-realised wine, disappointing food’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 5 September 2025 at 12:33

This natural wine bar fulfils its main brief, but the food feels like an afterthought

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Implaqueable women – The Hackney Society celebrates those turned down for ‘not being famous enough’

By Catriona Harrison | Friday 5 September 2025 at 12:26
Green plaque

‘It’s not that they weren’t doing anything – it’s that it wasn’t deemed important enough to record’

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Bad Boy Pizzeria, Bethnal Green, food review: ‘One for the die-hard pie fans’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 5 September 2025 at 11:31

The New York-style restaurant is proof that the ‘appetite for pies with zippy, cartoonish branding has not abated’

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